Lawyers thought they were going to “gotcha” student activist Yasmine Johnson. But by remaining steadfast, she made them look ...

Sometimes a little bit of the truth slips out amid the lies at the royal commission. So it was in this week’s testimony from ...

The royal commission’s witnesses are unreliable and prejudiced, and the commissioner seems to accept that supporting a ...

Behind all the culture war bluster and appeals to rural reaction, Pauline Hanson’s key function in Australian politics is to popularise policies and measures that guarantee the further enrichment of ...

Workers at BHP’s ports in Port Hedland, in Western Australia’s Pilbara, will down tools for eight hours tomorrow. Around 200 electricians, boilermakers, fitters and shiploaders will strike from 2pm to ...

This article by Yasmine Johnson, a Jewish student, socialist and one of the national coordinators of Students for Palestine, is based on her testimony at the royal commission.

The November Victorian election is shaping up as a decisive battle, the outcome of which will have ramifications well beyond the state. The surge of support for One Nation has created the real ...

Australian politics is at a turning point. One Nation’s polling numbers have gone from disturbing to disastrous in just a few months. The party is now a serious electoral challenger, and its leaders ...

Every progressive movement and cause, at some stage, is slandered by its opponents. But the scale and extremity of the lies told to justify Israel’s genocide in Gaza are breathtaking. Most people who ...

Labor politicians and the trade union leaders allied to them have undermined working-class cohesion and consciousness. In doing so, they have severely weakened the very forces that could have blunted ...